Emilia clenched his fists as he watched this scene.

Shar.

This name always seems to appear opposite him.

However, no matter what he wants to do, whether he can succeed or not, the first step is that he must at least know where the enemy is.

Instead of blindly bombing the Ghost City with your eyes closed, you might as well tear up the shooting chart you've measured over the past few days and stick the emblem of the goddess of luck, Tymora, in its place.

The so-called silver fire signal might be possible, but it would definitely be a trap. However, the problem was not solved.

He must need a signal to confirm the target.

In this situation, only one person could possibly do the most bizarre thing.

Emiya asked, "Yin, can you determine the exact location of the... creature on the other end of the short message?"

Yin blinked, then reacted. A chilling smile immediately appeared on her face. "If it's a normal short message spell, it's a bit troublesome. But if someone wants to intercept the short message spell, the operation will be much more difficult, and the traces she leaves in the magic network will be very conspicuous."

"So, yes."

Sixty-four Moons Piercing the Clouds (Part 2)

What will you see when you finally come to the surface from the darkness underground?

"...It's still as dark as underground." Emilia sighed.

He wasn't even sure where they were being teleported to. If it weren't for the feel of the earth beneath his feet, he wouldn't have been sure if his portal had been successfully activated.

"there."

However, his team is not an ordinary team.

Silver tilted his head slightly, then took Emiya's hand and pointed in a direction: "Candlekeep is in that direction...about three kilometers?"

Emiya looked at the dark world in confusion: "How can you tell this?"

Now, even with the help of True Seeing, Emilia could only see her own companions clearly.

"I don't know where Candlekeep is. I just know how far away the people who are still in Candlekeep are from me." Silver glanced at Halffont and said.

Emiya has long been aware of the close connection between silver and the magic network.

She didn't know the location of Candlekeep, but she knew the distance between Midnight, the two Silver Hands and herself.

Then, Yin raised Emiya's hand a few degrees higher: "...Meta, it's right there."

Three kilometers away, the temperature only rose a few degrees.

This meant that his teacher was not in the sky as originally planned, but had already gone deep into the Ghost City.

...Or, fell into the city of ghosts.

Then, Metatron's condition might not be very good.

We must seize the time.

He had a plan, but he did not have the materials to realize it, so he had to turn to his own simulacrum and the master craftsman of Gond, Gutenberg, for help.

"Gin, is the short message technique simply completely unusable, or?"

Yin hesitated for a moment and shook his head: "I'm not sure. Ghost City is relatively special after all."

Ghost City is now the most powerful settlement of Shar's forces. Ghost City is probably full of Shar's priests, so it would be much easier for her to control it.

However, communication is a technology, and the transmission of information is even more so. Even if Shar could really intercept all text messages, so what?

If she wanted to act with Emilia now, that was fine—Emilia could just do it openly under her nose.

[Simula, everything is going smoothly here. Don't ask any more questions. I want you to execute Plan Two, while I myself will execute Plan Three and need your help.]

Emiya pondered for a moment and said, "...Send the things to target number 30."

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“…Plan Three!?”

After hearing the simulacrum's words, the true commander-in-chief of Candlekeep's defenses, Master Craftsman Gutenberg, was so angry that he almost laughed out loud: "What do you mean everything went smoothly? Does your true self even know what you said?"

The simulacrum said seriously, "I am only relaying the original's words, without changing a single word."

Gutenberg wiped the smoke from his face and shook his head. "Alright, that's it. I'll notify each group."

They had developed several contingency plans, or rather, several phases, for the defense of Candlekeep. Only when one plan failed would they be forced to move on to the next phase.

The first stage, of course, is to try to use all the defensive forces on the city walls to exhaust the enemy as much as possible.

Theoretically, if the enemy can be forced to flee at this stage, then there is no need for Plan 2, and the same applies to Plan 3.

Plan number two is to quickly abandon the walls and escape into the castle interior - this stage should be carried out quickly enough and cannot be methodical.

Because the most critical killing move at this stage is the chain restriction technique deployed inside Candle Castle.

If their retreat went too smoothly, the invading enemy would naturally be hesitant to enter Candlekeep, so the first stage of the escape should be slightly chaotic and quick enough. It would be best if the undead creatures could enter Candlekeep with a sense of triumph - that way, the forbidden spell could cause as much damage as possible.

Starting from Plan No. 3, the normal defense plan turned into a life-and-death struggle - Candle Castle could no longer complete the defense on its own, so Emilia chose to go outside the castle and try to cooperate with Apodel and Metatron to behead the enemy.

——And Plan No. 4 is truly a case of exhausting all other options, and they have no choice but to seek help from the gods.

The walls of Candlekeep haven't been breached yet, so why do we need Plan Three?

Is it because the battle in Ghost City went awry?

In Gutenberg's impression, Lunia's Emilia did not like to be ambiguous, but today was indeed a little strange.

...Also, Apodale has been in the City of Ghosts for some time. His communications have also stopped for a while.

[People of Gond, notify all members of your team and prepare Plan Two. Increase the power of the Companion Moon to its maximum to see if we can restore illumination. If you discover the lich attempting a counterattack, evacuate immediately.]

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"...I don't quite understand. What are you doing?"

Haverfont reached out and held down his black hair that was dancing in the wind, and asked from the bottom of his heart.

The Shadow Spirit Illusionist is a typical... one could even say a very classic mage or arcanist.

She was a disciple of the previous Mage King of Halruaa, a faction that even broke away from Netheril during its heyday, and the legacy of the Netherian era was inevitably passed down.

Spell warfare is all they think about, perhaps with the assistance of their subordinates...that's all.

For such people, what Emya and his simulacra are doing is indeed a little difficult to understand.

"...Isn't that hard to understand?" A person's simulacrum is supposed to have a personality similar to the original, but because the simulacrum is clearly not the original, the personality it ultimately displays may differ from the original. This was certainly true of Emilia's simulacrum: for some reason, he was much more talkative than Emilia herself.

——At least after her simulacrum was teleported from Candlekeep, Emiya herself was too lazy to speak.

As he and Emiya worked together to modify a massive metal structure that was already several people tall, he explained, "In short, we are fulfilling your wish—to make sure your Lord God has no time to bother with you."

"I know you are doing something! But what I want to ask is, what exactly are you doing!"

At this time, Emilia finally raised his head, glanced at Haffont, and said, "If we succeed, you will see it. If we fail, it will be meaningless for you to know. It's better to run back underground and pretend that we have fought to a draw."

"Tsk, if you don't want to say it, then don't say it." Haverfont naturally thought it was an excuse and turned his head away in dissatisfaction.

But it's not entirely because Emilia is unfriendly, but the principle of gunpowder weapons itself is also half a secret of the Gund Church. Now that the war is undecided, Haverfont's position still has room for reversal, so he naturally has to keep it secret.

In addition, the principles of gunpowder weapons are completely different from arcane magic after all, and he cannot explain it clearly in a short period of time.

However, the great wizard of the Halrua lineage will obviously not give up.

Now, they have left the ground.

To be more precise, it is located in mid-air, on a platform built with force field walls.

This force field platform, built by Yin himself, was dozens of meters above the ground, covering several hundred square meters. Far from Candleburg, it was completely shrouded in darkness. It was almost impossible for the outside world to discover this artillery position hidden in the darkness.

However, Halffont quickly found her opportunity: "...Well, as far as I know, Larloch's liches have temporarily left the battlefield, but their return date is uncertain. How will Candlekeep resist the liches?"

Of course it can't be resisted.

The liches outnumbered the total number of spellcasters within Candlekeep. Furthermore, Candlekeep's true trump card, the Greatshield Mystique, had been destroyed, while Metatron and Apodel had chosen to attack Shade City in the opposite direction—in this situation, conventional means were inadequate. The fact that Candlekeep had been able to destroy the liches' forces without casualties, forcing them to engage in a bloody battle, was a result of Emia's dedicated assistance.

While the artillery's lethality was sufficient, accuracy was a problem. Even if the Gond's artillery could hit the target with the help of a firing table, the lich was only one person after all, and hitting such a tiny target was extremely difficult. By now, almost all the artillery had fired several times, and the hit rate should have plummeted.

Therefore, almost everyone believed that Plan Two was almost certain to be implemented, and even believed that Plan Two was the solution that could truly inflict heavy damage on the Liches. The problem was how to execute it in such a way as to inflict heavy losses on the Liches.

However, Miss Illusionist obviously has her own ideas.

She unconsciously clapped her left palm with her right hand and suddenly said, "...Come to think of it, you're just defending Candlekeep. Don't you have a second base?"

"No." Emilia replied, "If Candlekeep can't be defended, just prepare to evacuate."

"So, now, Candlekeep seems to have never been attacked?"

"No."

"...Interesting. So, since Candlekeep hasn't been in close contact with Larloch's men yet... I have an idea now. Mr. Emiya, you used that metal cylinder to bombard Milim earlier? How many times can you perform such an attack in such a short period of time?"

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【Don't waste any more time.】

On the other side, the liches' time of slacking off has officially ended.

Larloch's message reached every lich: "Reports have arrived from Baldur's Gate—Baldur's Gate's forces are unexpectedly weakened, and the firepower they're facing is far less than Candlekeep's. The Gondites may have already arrived to reinforce Candlekeep. But the priests who live with Gunpowder are best at positional warfare. You shouldn't continue to waste time with them; that's their absolute advantage."

Therefore, you should capture the top of Candlekeep within ten minutes, turn those artillery pieces into scrap metal, force all defense forces into Candlekeep, and then wait for orders.

[Previously, the Seraphim who suppressed you with arrows has been subdued and is currently engaged in an internal conflict with Apodel. Your obstacle has been eliminated.]

One hundred and twenty liches, having already exhausted the enemy, could capture the outer wall of Candlekeep within ten days, which was not an excessive request.

Moreover, their boss is actually quite domineering and doesn't listen to the opinions of his subordinates, but that doesn't mean he is really stupid.

After taking some time to regroup, the liches who had fled the battlefield realized that there was nothing wrong with Larloch's opinion.

Their biggest advantage and Candleburg's biggest disadvantage is the gap in hard power.

Previously, the lich had held back because he was trying to determine Metatron's location. Previously, beneath Candlekeep, the Seraphim had used a torrential downpour of steel to instantly send nearly a hundred liches back to their phylacteries—a truly terrifying feat.

But since Larloch claimed that she had lost her fighting ability, there was really no need for the liches to hesitate any longer.

One hundred and twenty liches, or rather one hundred and twenty nine-ring necromancers.

Even if their triggering and chain triggering skills were accidentally destroyed by the Seraphic Servant, the remaining power was more than enough to break through the city wall.

Now, darkness fell, and even the towers of Candlekeep did not know where they were.

One hundred and twenty meteor explosions are enough to wipe out all the defenses on the city wall.

——And the fact is, it is indeed so.

The liches didn't even engage in any unnecessary nonsense.

Their strength has an absolute advantage, so they have ample margin.

A few seconds later, countless flaming meteors bloomed in the sky above Candlekeep.

In the darkness of Shar, even a lich's meteor burst couldn't emit even a ray of fire. However, these liches had generally been nine-ringed wizards for hundreds of years and were extremely familiar with the spell of meteor burst.

They had been observing the top of Candlekeep for a long time. They were sure that their meteor blast had hit its target - even if Candlekeep used a mirage as a cover.

The most arrogant lich among them was even ready to send a victory report to Larloch.

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"...It's been a long time since I've seen a Nether Core."

Larloch sighed lightly.

Just when the middle and upper levels of the City of Ghosts, including the city lord, had already run to the outer city area and prostrated themselves at the feet of the Goddess of Night, listening to the fight between angels and paladins, the Lich King came to the real center of the City of Ghosts very familiarly.

Larloch had never been to the City of Ghosts before. However, as long as the City of Ghosts was still a floating city, the same things must exist at the bottom of the mountains and cities.

A Nether energy core. Or rather, a black orb that was influenced by Shar and was constantly absorbing light like a black hole.

It was a magical artifact, almost like the heart of the sun, a core of pure energy. Traditionally, a Nether energy core was primarily responsible for providing power to surrounding magical items, while also lifting the entire floating city, along with the mountain base, into the sky.

Its effect is a sphere, so all floating cities are roughly spherical, and the Nether energy core must be located in the center of the city.

——Of course, Larok came here with no good intentions.

Although it was just a hunch, he felt that there was something unusual about Candlekeep and he didn't think the attack would go smoothly.

Liches send skeletons, vampires, and ghosts to explore the way, while Larloch lets his liches explore the way. This is the ecology of undead creatures.

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